A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bally'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ballyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bally in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
'Ally-bally Ally-bally-be on page 8

2 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Ally Bally Bee Ally Bally, Ally Bally Bee
, Ally Bally Bee
2 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Ally Bally! https://t.co/tkHhzApT4m(2020)

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
y faw ower intae sleep: "Ally Bally, Ally Bally Bee, sittin on ye on page 23

2 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
es like Katie Bairdie an Ally Bally: https://t.co/lBOuOyqmtO #Sco (2019) twitter link